The pro wrestling/Photoshop lovers at Pensblog created a creative Olympic Hockey fantasy game at Rinkotology. You have until 3:00 pm ET to get your team in and go for one of the 5 prizes. It costs $10 to join, but I think it's worth the rooting interest. Besides, not everyone can afford putting such services up for free when they're not some Internet hippo like Yahoo!, right?

At first I thought I should try to keep my team secret, but then I realized that would be petty and silly. Really, if you want to steal some of my ideas go for it.

Here's my team. I'll have an explanation for choices in a bit, but I wanted to get this up to give people a chance to join.

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Evaluating my team

So, the catch with Rinktology is that you have to choose one player from every country. You are allowed 8 forwards, 3 defensemen and one goalie.

The first step, for me, was to narrow down the best choices from the underdog nations.

Swiss defenseman Mark Streit is the easiest choice of all and I'd be surprised if any "hockey people" left him out. Perhaps someone thinks that Jonas Hiller will lead a crazy Cinderella run, but I'm more comfortable with the rarity of a high scoring Swiss D.

One of the biggest decisions was picking a goalie.

I think that Canada is going to take the gold medal, but I was weary of choosing between Roberto Luongo and Martin Brodeur. Russia is obviously the other big favorite for the gold, but I'm not a huge fan of their defense (and naturally want to have a certain Russian forward on my team anyway).

While I'm a fan of Ryan Miller, I'm more than a little worried about the US defense.

So considering these factors (Canada and Russia's forwards are too great to pass up but you want to go after a goalie on a strong contender), the decision came down to Henrik Lundqvist or Tomas Vokoun.

Ultimately, I wanted Nicklas Lidstrom on my blue line more than any Czech player in any other position. It also is fair to say that I have a bit of a hockey dork crush on Vokoun, so I figured why the hell not?

Crosby, Ovechkin and Hossa were probably the easiest decisions to make. I might make a last minute change from Patrick Kane to Zach Parise, but I'm definitely happy to root for a likable American forward either way.

Toughest omissions:

Lundqvist: I might change my mind at the last minute and make him my goalie

Jaromir Jagr: my man-crush on Jagr is almost unlimited.

Henrik Zetterberg: I've always been a big fan of his, and really, defensemen are never as valuable as forwards in these things. Still, the lure of Lidstrom was too strong.